Son Says He Saw Linux Guru Carrying 'Somebody' Wrapped in a Bag

Submitted by Ty on November 14, 2007 - 1:00pm

The young son of Linux guru Hans Reiser resumed testimony at his father's murder trial after a lunch break Tuesday. The 8-year-old boy told jurors he saw his father carrying "somebody" rolled up "like a ball" inside a bag down the stairs of his father's Oakland house the night his mother vanished.

The boy got on the ground in a ball to suggest how a body might have been in the bag. All 12 jurors, hypnotized by his every word, craned their neck to see the dark-haired boy below them on the carpet in Alameda County Superior Court here. "Because it was tight like that, like a ball," he said.

The boy recently had drawn a picture of that event, which was shown to jurors.